to the country today, this as johnson has been rocked by a new wave of resignations. joining us now from london, nada bashir. good morning, we ve been following these developments the past few hours. what do we know so far about the reports that johnson will step down? reporter: good morning, christine. just gone 10:00 a.m. here in london and clearly a lot has happened. boris johnson now expected to stand down from his post as prime minister. we are expecting him according to downing street to make a statement in the coming hours. we re also waiting for that lectern to come out here to address the press, give that statement announcing his resignation. we understand that he spoke with the chairman of the 1922 committee, that is the committee of back bench members of parliament here in the conservative party who would oversee the process of both the prime minister resigning and of course that potential vote of confidence. but it hasn t reached that stage. the prime minister n
significant shift in the conservative party. we ve seen a number of resignations nearing 60 now, mps, government aides all announcing their resignation. the overwhelming theme has been of course questions around the prime minister s integrity, trust in the prime minister. whether he is the right person to lead the conservative party anymore. and we have of course seen the bombshell resignations from his cabinet ministers, some of his closest allies including the former chancellor ritchey sunak who led the way for the snowball effect of resignations. in the last couple hour, we ve also seen the newly appointed chancellor, the number two now, zawahi, issuing a letter publicly calling on the prime minister to step down. so he hasn t resigned, but according to sources close to the situation, we understand that number of cabinet ministers close to the prime minister, loyal allies some of them, spoke to him yesterday calling on him
today just after the news broke. he was really stunned. as tough as that job is on people, you know, i expected hope to be the one to turn out the lights on the trump administration, that she would be there for the full four or eight years. i don t know if that was realistic but i think it speaks to how jarring it was for people who work with her to see her arbitrarily decide to leave, especially in the middle of all the crises that are ongoing. the other issue that came up in my reporting was, look, she s spoken to mueller, maybe that s a reason she s left. if she has reason to believe that perhaps she is a target of this investigation, maybe now is the time to leave and get some distance from the white house if things are going to go in a bad direction. chris, i have to take a break. quickly, how much of this i was sitting in my office and watching all the news channels, right trump tv or state run tv, they re not even reporting this. so trump supporters, they don t even know a
taking the guns early. so a recap just on the open of this show, bombshell resignations, white house in-fighting, guns, all of that and it s only wednesday. let s bring in senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. jeff, where do we start? the white house under a barrage of bad headlines tonight. what s the latest? don, certainly a busy day on a variety of fronts here at the white house, as you covered there. there was this dramatic session in the cabinet room of the white house this afternoon that seemed to really be the driving story of the day here, if you will, with the president having this session with democrats and republicans sitting down trying to broker a deal on guns. he said, do not be petrified by the nra, he said now is the time to do something. literally minutes after that meeting broke up, news came from the white house that hope hicks, the communications director, one of the closest advisers to the president, said she was
message for his critics. i don t think, i know we can save this great buckeye state. sean: the mainstream media put on notice. media mash with brent bozell back. hannity starts right here, right now. the war in libya rages on tonight. in the wake of two bombshell resignations from the libyan government gadhafi is striking back and claiming their departures on the west. the dictator has call for each leader behind the military strikes against his nation to step down. battles are ongoing in that country tonight. we go to steve harrigan he joins us from tripoli. reporter: it has been bad news for the rebels over the last 24 hours. they are moving backwards to the east to benghazi the position they were in before these coalition airstrikes started. those coalition strikes have